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So, Binary Culture’s Core Software project is to create a software bundle that is best of breed in every area, that is integrated tightly into a unified, easy-to-use whole. This will be developed and published in a transparent manner (probably GPL & CC Attribution Required but we’ll sort that out later) and the objective is to provide a turnkey product but this will be a sophisticated package and will require sophisticated IT management, so we will also be offering a management package to assist companies that want to use it. Of course, we are also happy to work with users on a consultative basis to incorporate various functional or aesthetic requirements.

I’ll be posting here with some initial ideas of requirements and starting points over the next few days.

Binary Culture’s mission to facilitate excellence in digital media development must include a focus on infrastructure and within that broad term, I see a very real need to develop a easy-to-run package of that core software infrastructure necessary for a modern content business. Email, IM, Wiki, Shared Calendar, Task Tracking; the software that enables a shared knowledge space and keeps everyone in a group working toward the same goal.

From our previous analysis we know that existing groupware products do not solve these problems in a best-of-breed manner that provides the customisable, flexible and cross-platform manner that is required. So we will instead create a bundle of cheap, easy-to-use software that we can make available to the community and stand behind as a reliable production-ready system.

You can read more about my thoughts on this project by tracking this.